BPN483: High Z Materials for Nuclear Detection

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BPN483

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Start Date

Sun 2009-Jan-25 13:17:21

Last Updated

Mon 2009-Aug-24 17:17:48

Abstract

Homeland security requires development of cost-effective nuclear detection capability to distinguish threats from non-
threats.
High atomic number (Z) semiconductor devices with high efficiency, sufficient energy resolution, and room temperature operation
offer the potential to meet this objective rapidly, reliably, and inexpensively, but have been challenging to realize, despite significant
efforts spanning 30 years. To achieve this important goal, there is strong consensus that fundamental limitations on charge
collection in high Z materials must be understood, material quality must be improved, and large scale techniques for production of
novel detector material films must be developed.